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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... is a broader exploration of how “other” languages take place in postcolonial theory—not only Said and Spivak's German, but Abdelfattah Kilito's Italian and Frantz Fanon's Arabic. What is the place of translation in self-representation? How do instances of textual citation complicate the self of self...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as the object of critique and analysis. Through a reading of Gandhi and Fanon, the authors argue that anticolonialism, while engaged in a critique of the West, also had a positive or reconstructive theoretical agenda, one that has been taken up in creative ways in postcolonial political thought. Taking cues...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 475–494.
Published: 01 August 2022
... toward the implementation of a municipal electoral system ( autarquia ) and argue that it poses an Afro-utopian challenge: the issue of autarky, or the recognition of self-organization and self-sufficiency vis-à-vis postcolonial autocratic rule. ruy.blanes@protonmail.com hitlerjessy@gmail.com...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 478–480.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to postcolonialism in the present. The work of translation here does not simply involve introducing a marginal novelty into mainstream critical theory; rather it is a process of exhuming the elements that are untranslatable in the text—that is, the conceptual problems that have universal implications from within...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Vilashini Cooppan Abstract This article considers how time, space, and history are mobilized across a contemporary range of debates in postcolonial studies, world literature theory, and memory studies. The time-maps surveyed all revolve around Eurochronology and its contestations, and range from...
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Critical Times 10800321.
Published: 15 June 2023
... of historicism to a disavowal of history to postcolonial criticism and ultimately to a cosmopolitical stance. It suggests that Guha’s most important contribution to global critical theory is not his historiographical achievements but his unique phenomenology of time. Mobilizing both modern and non-modern...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 73–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of colonial histories requires material reparations for the substantive inequalities bequeathed as legacies of the past, but these reparations also require a transformation of understandings and a recognition of “epistemological justice.” Postcolonial and decolonial theories can provide a further jolt...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 353–358.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to be a nostalgic rehashing of an untimely Third Worldism that has lost its political relevance. Certainly, if we consider the dominant statist-nationalist, postcolonial forms that anticolonialism birthed, the foundational arguments made at Bandung in 1955—respect for human rights, the territorial integrity...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 543–551.
Published: 01 December 2021
... further open this discussion onto the vexed development of Marxism and anticolonial and postcolonial thought. Amel and Adorno have strikingly similar ideas about the critique of positivist thinking and what constitutes identity-thinking. As we have seen, in Said's case, Marx's sensitivity to the Easterner...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to be understood as a discrete historical moment of a past that had been displaced by the market logics of capital accumulation. Those who have more recently been drawing from the well of postcolonial theory and those drawing on decolonial theory have turned to alternative theorizations of colonialism...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 187–232.
Published: 01 August 2021
... be crystallized ( cristallisès ) by new forms, and “with the intention of opening up the future,” is due to an abyssal thrownness, and it is this thrownness, and not reason or ideology, that is the beginning of the postcolony, and that gives some sense of the audacity of Fanon's thesis ( WE p, 167). What other...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 347–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Entanglement asks us to see temporality as an interplay of pasts, presents, and futures, where none of these terms are given, but emerge in relation to one another. The connections between these seemingly disparate times are enacted according to competing political projects, from rehearsals of postcolonial...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 370–398.
Published: 01 August 2022
... is not simply about “recognizing the signs and seeds of the present in order to nourish them” but also continuing to nourish those of the past as well. 11 Specifically, the ideals that have animated the Tanzanian experiment are collective and egalitarian, something that cannot be said of all postcolonial...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2021
... or power-knowledge regimes) does not exist? Like other contemporary Arabic thinkers of the past century, Amel was committed to rationalism. Further, he understood rationality to be the most fundamental battleground for emancipation in postcolonial societies plagued by the rise of bourgeois nationalism...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 517–529.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that rattles devoted Marx scholars to this day—so much so that “Against Said” was almost chosen as a subtitle for a widely read 2010 book on Marx's view of the Global South. 1 Traditional Marxism's opposition to postcolonial criticism should therefore not come as a surprise. In engaging with Said's work, we...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1999 . Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . Outside in the Teaching Machine . New York : Routledge , 1993 . Thomas Calvin . “ Cultural Droppings: Bersani's Beckett .” Twentieth Century...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., a violence that is by no means specific to the postcolonial military states of the Arab world, as traditionally racist or neoorientalist media coverage has it. Conjuring extreme violence, an internal possibility derived from the intertwinements of capital and state, means calling to mind what happened...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of postcolonial studies, though through a very specific avenue: National Socialism.” 12 This is significant, since failing to implicate colonial practices of dehumanization, the modes of race-thinking that these produce, and Malthusian techniques of conquest, capitulation, and massacre in setting the stage...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Other parts of the world also saw the occurrence of civil wars that were folded into the narrative of anticolonial struggles, producing new states in places like Vietnam, Korea, and Algeria. The postcolonial moment, which began in 1947 with the independence of India and Pakistan, ended in 1971 when...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 450–455.
Published: 01 December 2020
...” ; Kaufman-Osborn, “Political Theory.” 2. Seth, “Postcolonial Critique.” 3. Iqtidar, “Redefining ‘Tradition’” ; Iqtidar, “Searching for Tolerance.” 4. Asad, “Conscripts,” 333 . 5. Iqtidar, Secularizing Islamists? 6. Iqtidar, “ Jizya against Nationalism...
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